How to Use dune in a Sentence

dune

noun

• We wandered over the dunes.
• What were once blocks of apartments there are now piles of rubble amid a wasteland of dunes.
  — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• Nili Patera is a region on Mars in which dunes and ripples are moving rapidly.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Aug. 2019
• After Superstorm Sandy whacked the state, most shore towns had to build or rebuild protective sand dunes.
  — USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
• The new product, which comes in three colors — iron, dune and seafoam — will be available on the brand’s website and will be used by an array of fitness facilities.
  — Emily Burns, WWD, 9 Sep. 2024
• The park is an amazement: winds from the west and southwest lift grains of sand from the grasses and sagebrush of the valley and deposit the finest ones, creating gigantic dunes.
  — Ted Conover, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Nearly seven years after Sandy, Manasquan and Belmar do not have dunes protecting their coast.
  — USA TODAY, 9 July 2019
• Mayors have been ousted, planning documents rewritten, campaigns waged over the very thought of turning prime real estate back into dunes and beaches.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 15 July 2019
• Telling added that over the last decade, winds on Mars have driven more sand movement than previously thought and that the erosions could be similar to those of sand dunes seen on Earth.
  — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019
• Under an order of abatement signed with air quality officials last year, state park operators agreed to reduce dust emissions from the dunes by 50%.
  — Tony Barboza, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• Air quality in the nearby Nipomo Mesa routinely exceeds state health standards for particulate matter when the wind blows across the dunes.
  — Tony Barboza, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• According to park officials, the motorcyclist was following another rider and crashed off a 30-foot dune.
  — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, latimes.com, 15 July 2019
• Off-road enthusiasts have flooded state officials with phone calls and letters and circulated a petition to protect vehicle access to the dunes.
  — Tony Barboza, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• The par-5 seventh hole, one of the two additions to Royal Portrush, weaves between dunes with a stiff wind off the North Atlantic into the players.
  — Doug Ferguson, The Denver Post, 18 July 2019
• On the bare dune, the waves rolled up the face of the dune and then back down.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 15 June 2023
• On the other side of a steep, sandy dune, the ocean roared.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• Or just plant yourself among the dunes and nap to the sound of the waves lapping.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, on the dunes, the sun rose and colored the mountains.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• Your hosts will take you out in the dune buggies early in the evening.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2022
• The dune and beach southeast of the dam, known as Rick's Beach, will be open to the public.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 23 Feb. 2024
• Thanks to the line of traps, the dune survived the assault of Dorian.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• Large waves, high winds, and the water lines is into the dunes.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Any sandy desert, like the dunes at San Luis Obispo, is a dream as well.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• His road trip takes us to and through peaks and dunes of the Southwest and winds up across the border.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• It’s one of several state parks in the area and home to three rare coastal dune lakes.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 11 Mar. 2021
• On the way back, Almazrouei parks the buggy on a dune above the Liwa Nights camp.
  — Barry Neild, CNN, 28 Sep. 2022
• The dunes aren’t as tall as those at Great Sand Dunes, but some are high enough to give kids a thrill.
  — Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Oil is also tucked beneath the rolling dunes of the Empty Quarter and the seabed of the Gulf.
  — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
• This is just the tip of the iceberg, or dune, of what Zemi offers.
  — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2024
• Great Sand Dunes allows dogs to hike to the top of the highest dune on the first ridge of the park, then cool off in Medano Creek.
  — Emily Pennington, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024